Fabrizio Bernardi Explained

Minor planets discovered: 11 
9 January 2002
10 July 2002
5 August 2002
3 September 2002
3 September 2002
4 September 2002
2 October 2002
24 February 2003
10 January 2002
18 August 2003
19 June 2004
19 June 2002
9 January 2002
11 July 2002
26 February 2003
250370 Obertocitterio12 October 2003
7 November 2005
co-discovery with Andrea Boattini
co-discovery with Maura Tombelli
co-discovery with Roy Tucker and David Tholen
co-discovery with Mario Di Martino

Fabrizio Bernardi (born 1972) is an Italian astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets, best known for the co-discovery of the near-Earth and potentially hazardous asteroid 99942 Apophis.

He is a member of the IAU, and credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 7 numbered minor planets during 2002–2005, including, another near-Earth object a member of the Amor group of asteroids, and, a trans-Neptunian object. In 2002, he discovered the outer main-belt asteroid 65001 Teodorescu at Campo Imperatore station, Gran Sasso, Italy, and named it after his former wife, the Romanian astronomer Ana Teodorescu.

He was involved together with colleagues Marco Micheli and David Tholen, with observations of the Mars-crosser asteroid 2007 WD5 during his stay at the University of Hawaii observatory.[1] While at the Mauna Kea Observatories in Hawaii, he discovered 268P/Bernardi, a Jupiter family comet.

The main-belt asteroid 27983 Bernardi, discovered by astronomers Andrea Boattini and Maura Tombelli at Cima Ekar, was named in his honor on 9 November 2003 .

Publications

ACM2002 Proceedings – Berlin: The Campo Imperatore Near Earth Objects Survey (CINEOS): Andrea Boattini, Germano D’Abramo, Giovanni B. Valsecchi, Andrea Carusi, Andrea Di Paola, Fabrizio Bernardi, Robert Jedicke, Alan W. Harris, Elisabetta Dotto and Fiore De Luise, et al.[2] In press. Discovery of the heavily obscured Supernova SN2002CV. Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.393, p.L21-L24[3] [4]

Proceedings of the Planetologia Italiana Workshop – Bormio, Italy, 20–26 January 2001: CINEOS – Campo Imperatore Near Earth Objects Survey Expected background of asteroids and stars for the Wide Angle Camera of the Rosetta Mission[4]

Asteroid background for the Wide Angle Camera of the Rosetta Mission, Poster, Division for Planetary Sciences 2001, New Orleans, USA[4]

ESTEC Internal report, September 2000: Image simulation of the inner coma environment for the Wide Angle Camera of the OSIRIS experiment[4]

See also

Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20080111142119/http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news156.html NASA
  2. The Campo Imperatore Near Earth Object Survey (CINEOS) . 10.1007/s11038-007-9144-8 . 2007 . Boattini . Andrea . d'Abramo . Germano . Valsecchi . Giovanni B. . Carusi . Andrea . Di Paola . Andrea . Bernardi . Fabrizio . Jedicke . Robert . Harris . Alan W. . Dotto . Elisabetta . De Luise . Fiore . Perna . Davide . Leoni . Riccardo . Earth, Moon, and Planets . 100 . 3–4 . 259–271 . 2007EM&P..100..259B . 120358154 .
  3. http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/users/bernardi/ ESO 2002
  4. http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/users/bernardi/ homepage